Citizen Doug Productions now has two Video Devices pix270i ‘s from Sound Devices. These remarkable recorders track to two hotswappable SSD’s and can support Dante and MADI with 64 tracks at 48kHZ. They accept SPMTE timecode on BNC’s as well as word clock. SDI and HDMI embedding and de-embedding a 3G are supported. This means Black Magic ecosystems are fully supported.
Paired with the Focusrite Rednet PCIeNX card in a Sonnet chassis, it makes a solid platform to record ProTools session for later post in sync with picture.
In this use case, a recent world premier was audio captured. 128 tracks at 48kHz are available, rolling on 30, in this case only hitting the host network with one pix270i then MADI via fiber to the second pix. This allows the ProTools network devices to live on a separate network without house admin and only two stabs on house network switches. Weirdly on a static, non-redundant network, one still needs two addresses for the pix, one audio one control, if you’re going to use browser controls
With the Rednet PCIEnx and two pix’s, 64 channels can track at 96kHz with full video sync compliance and backups that don’t crash
